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A renowned Venezuelan human rights activist was freed Sunday after more than four years in a notorious Caracas prison, saying he endured 1,675 days behind bars that were “too much pain for a human being.” “The message remains the same: four years and seven months in prison did not silence the truth. The truth set me free,” Javier Tarazona told ...

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to “under no circumstances” get involved with protests in Democratic-led cities unless they ask for federal help or federal property is threatened. The announcement follows weeks of unrest and protests sparked by a large deployment of Border Patrol and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Iran’s army on Thursday added 1,000 drones to its combat regiments as its chief vowed a “crushing response” to any attack, state television reported, as US President Donald Trump weighs targeted strikes to inspire “renewed protests.” The US has already moved a strike force into regional waters. “In accordance with the threats we are facing, maintaining and enhancing strategic advantages ...

A plane crash in northeast Colombia on Wednesday killed all 15 people on board, including a local lawmaker, state-run airline Satena said. The Beechcraft 1900 twin-engined turboprop plane took off before noon from Cucuta, on the border with Venezuela, for a short flight to the town of Ocana, Satena said. Air traffic control lost contact with the plane 12 minutes ...

The Spanish government is about to kick off a mass regularisation of more than 500,000 irregular migrants. The Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree on Tuesday creating a fast-track path to legal residence for foreign nationals who can prove at least five months of continuous stay in the country prior to the end of December 2025. In order to ...

Iran said that it maintains “complete control” over the land, underwater and airspace of the Strait of Hormuz amid fears of a possible US strike against Tehran. “Iran is not seeking war, but it is fully prepared,” Mohammad Akbarzadeh, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, said in comments carried by the Fars News Agency. “If war breaks out, there ...

Ajit Pawar, deputy chief minister of Maharashtra state in India, has died in a plane crash along with four others, the country’s aviation regulator confirmed. The aircraft, which had departed from Mumbai, crash-landed at the airport in Pawar’s constituency of Baramati, its intended destination, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. The cause of the crash has not yet ...

A US-based rights group said on Monday it had confirmed the deaths of nearly 6,000 people during a wave of protests in Iran suppressed by security forces, as Tehran warned Washington against intervening. The protests started in late December, driven by economic grievances, but turned into a mass movement against the Islamic republic, with huge street demonstrations for several days ...

Myanmar opened the final round of its month-long election on Sunday, with the dominant pro-military party on course for a landslide in a junta-run vote critics say will prolong the army’s grip on power. The Southeast Asian nation has a long history of military rule, but the generals took a back seat for a decade of civilian-led reforms. That ended ...

Americans stripped supermarket shelves Friday ahead of potentially “catastrophic” winter weather that threatened at least 160 million people across the country with transportation chaos, blackouts and life-threatening cold. The massive storm system was set to drop a mix of freezing rain and heavy snow starting Friday evening on its days-long march across the continental US. The storm could bring “catastrophic ...